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He is, in fact, a hedgehog. Hedgehog characters in the Sonic fan communities always bothered me, because they all look the bloody same. Eastwood challenged me to take on the species and put a different spin on it.

Getting over his fear of the Inquisition, too, just for an Inquisitor to do that. This sounds like a perfect red herring for our heroes to be assigned to so they don’t mess up something more important.

Inquisitors, though. Blaming aliens when there’s a chaos god who takes a somewhat spider theme. That’s some serious open mindedness.

The bottom row is made of good posing. The shot of him running is especially good.

In the glorious golden days of the great Centauri Republic we thought nothing of spending a hundred years or more setting up ‘alien abductions’, ‘autopsies’ and ‘crashes’ so that when a race finally did make it to the stars, we could bring them on programs beamed across the Republic where they would be informed that they had been punk’d and we would drop a mile wide pie on their global capital from orbit.

I wonder sometimes, how many people are still able to make connection between “aliens”-guy’s hairstyle and “glorious golden days of the great Centauri Republic”, that is still and will be mourned by each generation of Centaurians…

For the sake of potential stealthiness I will neither disprove nor confirm your theory.
But such choice was made not for the reason of potential stealth profanity display, but as a suitable substitute for my main nickname.
Still, thank you, by my name.

I don’t buy the ancient aliens theory. In fact i have more faith in the transient pulse theory, or whatever it’s calling itself now. We advance to a level of technological brilliance, then fundamentalists take over and we blow ourselves back into the stone age… or at least the 19th century, eventually everything turns back around and we have a new renaissance or we devolve into 12th century politics. Then again, what do I know. I grew up with reformation era politics in suburban florida, and they’re only ten years behind most urban centers. A decade after I left they fired a science teacher for practicing witchcraft when all he did was make a toothpick disappear.

How aware is the general public of the dark gods ? Can a regular guy name the big four off the top of his head or is the knowledge of their existence so secret that knowing anything about them marks you as a potential cultist ?

I ask because as interesting the alien theory is, I think “Patternari cults” is a more obvious explanation for the spider imagery through the ages ;)

Patternari are creepy, spiders are creepy, Patternari represent deceit, Spiders (except for that one from James and the Giant Peach) represent deceit, I think it would just be a safe assumption that a good portion of Mobius’ spiders are Patternari cultists, please note: I said a SAFE assumption, not a correct one, so don’t hold me to it

I didn’t think it was possible but you both suck and rule at the same time, you rule for having extensive knowledge of the sonic comics, and by the way, spike is the name of a sonic OC I came up with in 2009, a full year before that damned show came on the air

No, it was revealed that Mulder was mind plucked by a crazy scientist. The other possible version of events is that his sister was abducted by a serial rapist murderer, and apparently being a somewhat helpless child himself and unable to protect her because of shock, arrested development, or brain injury blacked out the events in his mind.

Later it was revealed that the psychiatrist he was seeing was being brought up on charges for implanting ideas in peoples heads about events that never happened, which lead to a hunt for the actual rapist child murderer.

I believe the villain was eventually caught in a school bus yard by Mulder himself. Unfortunately, the killer refused to admit where he buried the body of Mulder’s sister and the only proof that she was kidnaped by him was a piece of clothing torn from his sisters pijama jumper. Then he dropped out, making only guest appearances, until the bisexual bodysnatcher movie showed up.

I can’t guarantee how reliable this is since I only saw the episode(s) once.

As I recall, the few times they did show aliens it was either the result of drug induced hallucinations or the organization run by the cigarette smoking man trolling Spooky and Miss Inconclusive. It’s still weird though.

To the best of my knowledge there was no time travel in the series. There was body swapping, superheroes, vampires, the possibility of aliens, and the dead coming back to life several times, artificial intelligence ghosts in the machines, even the assorted insects were threats to behold.

Fringe started off similar to the X-files franchise. In fact, if they had cameos of cast in the first season one could have easily put them in the same franchise. it was kind of like supernatural in a way too. I didn’t watch it religiously.

I’m not as impressed with Alias, since that is clearly a mission impossible meets tomb raider knock off. I honestly think Alcatraz was pretty bad and second only Revolution as far as bombs when compared to Abrahms other work.

If you haven’t seen it Revolution has the same plot as the postman. Only, in my opinion, it’s less believable and much longer. Sadly, my suspension of disbelief only goes so far…

Markus is actually a top-grade archeologist and field researcher. Much as Eastwood is a crack field man when he actually puts the effort in, and a Virus is one of the better combat daemonologists doing the rounds. Trouble is Markus is obsessed with aliens, Eastwood is an apathetic slacker and Virus has no common sense.

I’d go with Eastwood. He might be a slacker, but he can deliver when he needs to. Markus is a researcher and his alien obsession might not be for the best, and a lack of common sense is definitely loads more lethal than being lazy.

I’d actually never heard the dude speak til SilverSword and I were working on designing Kortez. I went and had a look at a YouTube montage. I believe, and Silv can verify this, that my verbal response was something along the lines of:

that was my exact response to: Justin Bieber, One Direction (sorry that England had the misfortune of being their birthplace BTW), Miley Cyrus (well, in her case I had a lot more things to say), every T.V. “Psychic” ever, Obama, etc. etc. etc.

unfortunately they play some commercials here in America and I hear a distinct English accent when one of them speaks, and if you’ve never heard one Direction, then trust me on this one, you are SUPREMELY. FUCKING. LUCKY.

and speaking of history channels, I’ve actually been wondering this for a few years now, how do schools in England teach the American Revolution? I mean, do they teach form the same point of view as American schools? (weird question I know, probably just gonna sound stupid or ignorant or some combination of both)

Well I was never the greatest history student, but I don’t remember learning that much about it in school. I probably absorbed more from American TV than from history class. I know it’s a major defining moment in US history, but, well, Europe has a lot of history. And Britain invaded/was invaded by, and conquered, colonised, withdrew from a lot of places.

I would like to thank you for your honest answer, Virus, and I’m well aware of it all, but I was just wondering if English schools taught the American revolution the same way (you know, different sides of the conflict and all), I know England has pretty much been invaded by everyone else at some point or another (the Nordic folks more often than not X3), actually, I love history, an area of expertise of mine is the Hundred Years War between France and England (and I side with England on that one)

As someone who did History for my GCSE, I we did not even mention the American Revolution. I honestly had NO idea what it was until I picked it up in college. As Virus said, we invaded and colonised a lot of places and most of those kicked us out. Historically, America was no different. GSCE history entirely consisted of this past century with teachers given SOME free reign to teach whatever history they want to teach in the years leading up to GCSEs. This is usually an ancient culture or two, the Vikings, Battle of Hastings, The Tutors and Stuarts, English Civil War, Industrial Revolution and very briefly covering the Victorian era as it lead onto the events that started the first world war. Not sure if every school is the same but from what I’ve seen, they are… or were.

Ancient Aliens…my brain glazes over every time I accidentally come into the room whilst it’s on. If you’re going to claim that aliens were responsible for huge chunks of human history, at least do your research.

I’ve been hearing lots of crap about supposed “UFO sightings” lately, I have to resist the urge to google map these yahoo’s (internet pun?) addresses just so I can find them and literally smack some sense into them

It’s part of the human condition, it’s how our flawed, easily-fooled minds and senses work. Centuries ago, people saw goblins and elves and gods and angels, and nowadays people see aliens and government conspiracies and… still gods and angels, for some reason.

I haven’t seen any of that… yet, anyone who claims they’ve seen an angel, I usually consider to be something of an asshat (even though I’m a protestant Christian who does believe in that sort of stuff… don’t hate me please)

Heh, no hate. Somehow I guessed as much. All I’m illustrating is that you might not want to be so aggro about other people’s weird paranormal beliefs, because to my mind, they’re no more or less deserving of a sense-smacking than any religious beliefs. :)

There was one cool observation that I liked which was the some stinking great bricks somewhere that had tabs that slotted neatly into one another. On the face of it, it would look like you would need some kind of precision tool to make stuff that neat and then heavy duty cranes to lift and position them. Wish I could remember where these things were or what they were called. They were pretty awesome. Of course, these bricks were thousands of years old and “before humans were walking out of caves” blah blah blah, the usual.

Main thing that bothers me is all we ever see are NUMEROUS different architectural styles that these aliens apparently loved to build but they never drop anything like a coin or an ipod or anything for us to dig up! If we found an ancient skeleton of a rather funny shaped creature wearing a Rolex, then ok, I’d find the alien thing really damn plausible.

It’s because many of these people can’t grasp the time aspect of these works. When your entire job / life is dedicated to getting this temple up, you’ll probably spend a long time becoming very good at making one kind of brick and someone else at a different one, et cetera and teaching children to do the same thing for a hundred years until the temple is up. It only seems necessary to have modern tools because it’s hard for us nowadays to come to grips with spending a month with a rough pad slowly making the exact indentation required. It’s like the Terra Preta area of the Amazon. It’s believed by some that a single civilization spent a millennium and a half turning a large section of the rainforest into an orchard, which is why the soil looks artificial and the trees are almost all fruit bearing in that area. They built with wood and died in the smallpox plague, so there is no other evidence of their presence. This is a task that probably stopped being a job and became a cultural imperative over the centuries.

Personally I can’t understand how people can make such elaborate Minecraft maps, but I don’t think aliens helped them. I just think that they had a remarkable store of patience and time.

Honestly, the whole thing is really racist and insulting to ancient cultures. “Why, those primitive brown people surely couldn’t have done all that on their own!” People back then were just as clever and full of ingenuity as people are now.

I was thinking about this for quite awhile now…he might have been playing the role of a ‘spotter’ for his ‘sniper’. Twitchy is looking dead at him when he aims the laser pointer at him, so maybe it’s more “Oh gods, he marking me!” Makes a bit more sense that way.

I’m wondering how one can expect an extraterrestrial organization to last so much longer than any terrestrial one. And not just the Danikenites, sci-fi is chock full of ten thousand year old interstellar empires (40K for one).

To be fair, 40Ks empires aren’t exactly unbroken.
Imperium – Isn’t really holding itself together with much more than the Astronomican and hope. Regularly loses and regains star systems because of clerical errors. Has changed a LOT over the millennia. Would likely collapse into civil war if not for Chaos keeping them coherent in the face of a much bigger problem.
Eldar – It helps when the individuals are apparently immortal. Still managed to screw it up in the end.
Necrons – Immortal AND had a 60 million year gap after which they’re more of a very angry confederacy
Tau – How long do Ethereal Caste Tau live anyway? It may be that it’s the same group in charge that always has been.

YOu draw anthro Hedghogs better then the source material! KUDOS!!!!
Our twitchy friend will make appearances, correct? That would be so cool. Course, I am curious as to how he ‘survived’ the chase. Lol.
IS the beginning of a story arc, I wonder? Hope so. The story arcs are so much more enjoyable then the short one or two shots, Then again, that my be because I love long involved plots.
And since I am so very much aware that my archive has come to an abrupt end, I shall go cry in a corner, wistfully wishing for an update to what may very well be the worst thing I could be reading in my aunts house, considering how much she disaproves of material such as this.
Can’t wait till we get our own place……
I would have gotten here sooner had it not been for my obssessive need to read all the news updates posted with each of the earlier ones and the later ones that had them. ANd stopping to comment once the boxes were available to do so.
Of course, now that I have finished with the binging, I can go to the forums now! YAY!
Okay I have rambled enough.

Yes, yes, you have a point there. I agree. One shots are important. But YAYAYAAYAY!!! Another arc is gonna be so much fun!
Ya know, Virus should take Blasphemy/Basphemy should stow away on a future adventure, simply so I can see more of him. Besides he might prove useful. Maybe.
Okay ignore me. I just love him and I don’t see enough of him.

indeed, very well drawn, but would be better if they were wearing the default outfits for the TF2 characters, please don’t take this as saying they suck because it’s not and they don’t, they are amazing, just a little light critique

Would’ve been interesting to see them in full TF2 gear instead of half in and half not, I’m not sure why the choice to not do so, but it’s all good.
More interesting to see the idea come around again. Those pictures were done back in, what, 2008? Back when we were playing TF2 regularly and a few years before we officially introduced the B and C teams, several of whom make much more obvious fits for the TF2 roles.

as I said in my choice list, either the red-head would make an awesome soldier, she’s crazy enough for it, and wildfire’s enough of a “Leeroy Jenkins” to be the scout, wouldn’t you agree? now honestly, a virus demoman does not frighten because, honestly, he’s not an explosives expert, he’s a daemon expert, he’d blow himself to hell and back before even scratching someone

I’ve recently gotten into TF2, it’s a lot of fun, hard as hell to play with a laptop mouse, but fun nonetheless

you won’t regret it… assuming you’re not one of those FPS gamers who spend a cubic sh*tload of time playing CoD and think that just ’cause your good at CoD that you’ll be good at TF2… sorry, I saw a video about that exact reason and now it’s stuck in my head, but yeah, it’s a good game, very colorful with a fun cast of characters

@ Spike: There was no reply button on your post so I hit the one on mine. Anyway, I haven’t played many games myself. The last FPS game I ever played was a Wolfenstien shareware back in…well, somewhere between 98 and 01, when it was still young, so you don’t have to worry about me on that. I just can’t wait till I get a stable enough net connection to try TF2. May take a while, though. The web site makes it look interesting though, so I am in full anticipation of it.

In defense of hedgehog characters, I designed mine to be as unlike Sonic as I could, since I knew any comparison would be made as soon as I told anyone what species it was.
Mr Kortez, though, is an inspired design.